Salmon, Andrew (Oral history)

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British trumpeter, gunner and NCO served with 5th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regt, Royal Artillery, 1st Hong Kong Regt, Hong Kong and Singapore Royal Artillery and 965th Independent Defence Bty, Royal Artillery, Fortress Command in Hong Kong, 1935-1941; prisoner of war in North Point and Sham Shui Po Camps, Hong Kong, 12/1941-9/1942; survived sinking of SS Lisbon Maru off Zhoushan Archipelago in South China Sea, 10/1942

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REEL 1 Recollections of period as trumpeter and gunner with 5th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regt, Royal Artillery in Hong Kong, 1935-1940: background to enlistment in Royal Artillery, 1934; posting to Hong Kong, 1935; voyage from GB to Hong Kong; disembarkation in Hong Kong; character of Lyemun Barracks; anti-aircraft equipment at Lyemun Barracks; duties as trumpeter and daily routine; relations between troops and barracks servants; daily routine; recreational activities; relations with Chinese including girl friends; Chinese attitude towards Japanese. REEL 2 Continues: aircraft observer work; exercises for defence of Hong Kong; static character of defence; army's opinion of Japanese forces; question of inadequacies of pre-war training; degree of awareness of political situation in China during late 1930s; belief in corrupt character of Chinese Nationalist Government; public executions in Canton; presence of refugees in Hong Kong; anti-piracy patrols; recreation camp at Cheung Chau Island; effects of outbreak of Second World War, 3/9/1939. REEL 3 Continues: changes in equipment and personnel from 1938; growing sense of Japanese threat; duties at Port War Signal Station; monitoring Japanese air presence. Aspects of period as NCO with 1st Hong Regt, Hong Kong and Singapore Royal Artillery in Hong Kong, 1940-1941: character of unit; his record keeping role; Sikh mutiny over wearing of steel helmets; Japanese massacre of unit members during Battle of Hong Kong, 1941. Aspects of operations as NCO with 965th Independent Defence Bty, Royal Artillery, Fortress Command in Hong Kong, 1941: posting to unit; role of unit; hearing news of start of Pacific War, 12/1941; Japanese air raids; deployment of British artillery; accuracy of Japanese artillery fire. REEL 4 Continues: opinion of suitability of Japanese equipment; Japanese infiltration tactics; superiority of Japanese camouflage; exhaustion of British Army troops at Stanley; Japanese atrocities in Stanley. Aspects of period as prisoner of war in North Point and Sham Shui Po Camps, Hong Kong, 12/1941-9/1942: conditions in North Point camp; hospitalisation for dysentery; transfer to Sham Shui Po Camp; character of Sham Shui Po Camp; diet; Indian collaboration with Japanese. Recollections of sinking of SS Lisbon Maru off Zhoushan Archipelago in South China Sea, 10/1942: drafting to Japan; torpedoing of ship by American submarine, USS Grouper (SS-214), 1/10/1942; Japanese battening down of holds prisoners of war; prisoner of war break-out of hold, 2/10/1942; taking refuge on islands; recapture by Japanese.

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Category: Sound
Related period: 1945-1989 (production), Interwar (content), Interwar (association), Second World War (association)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
Wood, Conrad (Recorder)
Salmon, Andrew (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 1981-08-26
Dimensions: whole: Duration 120, Number Of Items 4
Catalogue number: 5202

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